“A new report claims Apple is lining up suppliers for a 7.85-inch iPad, and that the company recently inked a deal with AU Optronics to provide displays for the rumored device,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.
“Monday’s report from the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (via Google Translate) is the third in five days to claim that Apple is planning to release a so-called ‘iPad mini’ in the third quarter of this year. On Saturday, a leaked document from Samsung Securities indicated Apple planned to release a ‘new 7-inch product’ later this year,” Oliver reports. “And last week, DigiTimes also claimed that Apple will begin production of a 7.85-inch iPad in the third quarter of 2012. It was said the device could be priced between $249 and $299.”
Oliver reports, “Monday’s report sided with on screen size, saying the 7.85-inch panels will be supplied by AU Optronics as well as LG Display. Apple will, however, exclude its rival Samsung from supplying displays, the report claimed.”
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New Apple KILLER lineup of iPad/iPod tablets (entry prices):
$199 iPod touch
$299 New iPod HD/iPad mini (Fall launch)
$399 Retained iPad 2 (8GB)
$499 New iPad HD
MANY people and business would prefer the 7.85″ form factor, even though the larger iPad will probably remain the best seller. Here’s a few examples:
–people with smaller hands (esp. women)
–people who want to fit it into a coat pocket/purse
–people who want to use it primarily as a reader or for movies (media tablet)
–people who want to a smaller/cheaper tablet for 6-12 year old children
–individuals that need to hold it up hours at a time for work but don’t need a large display
It WOULDN’T be the “full” tablet experience–so Jobs was right about that–BUT there is a SUBSTANTIAL market of people who need something in between the iPod and current iPad sizes/experiences.
Apple has FOUR screen sizes for notebook computers 2” inches apart, from 11″ to 17″. A third screen size for tablets is just what the doctored ordered.
Go Apple!!
Precisely! Well reasoned and well said. (Alone amid all the mindless fanboy blow that clogs the discussion.) Let’s hope it comes to pass.
Thanks!
It’s always nice to know that SOMEONE read your post.
… And then I remembered the iPod Touch does all that for me already. And I don’t even have smaller hands! 😉
Can’t wait for the new improved INFLATABLE iPad !!! That way we could all have exactly the perfect size for each of us.
Course it actually work, but who gives a rat’s patoutie. 😉
Do you also advocate that Apple eliminate the 13″ and 15″ notebook, so we should all just make do with either the 11″ or 17″ ones?
Just curious…
Do you also advocate that Apple eliminate its 13″ and 15″ notebooks, so we should all just make do with either the 11″ or 17″ ones?
Just curious…
• I like the idea of the Canteen iPad. You fill it with water and take it with you on hikes.
• Then there’s the Maxi iPad, 17″ for professional graphic designers and people with really big hands.
• Then there’s the Micro iPad, the first iPad you give to your newborn. It’s small and sturdy enough for baby, but not so small as to be a choking hazzard.
• Then there’s the 3D iPad with clip-on 3D glasses.
• Then there’s the Game iPad with a dedicated graphics card to make touch gaming ultra-fast and HD.
• Then there’s the Coach iPad, a collaboration with Apple that integrates a flexible iPad screen into the side of your Coach bag.
• Then there are iPad Ball Courts where you can play racketball and handball against a giant iPad wall screen. You aim for icons and trigger both visual and auditory responses.
Coming up in 2013: The iPad Toilet, the iPad broken leg cast, the iPad Pillow Cover, the iPad Refrigerator, Washing Machine and Dryer set, the iPad Welcome Mat, the iPad Bird Feeder and the iPad Fat Ass Table. 😆
Apple will not simply make a 8″ iPad Mini.
They will kill off the iPodTouch first then introduce this new device.
It is my prediction, this device is not merely an 8″ wide iPadmini – no – no – no. This is a virtual device.
A device that recognizes where it sits and neighbours to other devices an becomes an assistant to the advices around it.
This device allow me to call it “iSlate” – when nearby your iMac it will be come a virtual keyboard. Walk away with the device and it becomes a iPad. Bring the device in range to your TV it becomes this incredible assistant remote with voice to control your TV. If you have a AppleTV device it recognizes and this Device becomes a gaming controller. Walk ways again from your TV with iSlate and its a iPad again. Enter your car and its a hands free Siri navigator and cell phone.
One device – self syncing – self recognizing that to assist with your other devices – the 8″ iPadMini is a myth – its better to imagine this as a keyboard.
@WaterLilly sez: They will kill off the iPodTouch first then introduce this new device.
Please hold your breath.
On the other hand, the concept of the iPad/iPod Touch becoming self-syncing and recognized with other devices is nicely inevitable. That’s where we’re going.
All I can do is LAUGH at stupid Apple rumors. 😆
‘But but but! The market for smaller, cheaper pads is so HUGE!’
And lucrative? Amazon lose money on the sale of every Kindle Fire. Amazon’s only real competitor in that market is the Barnes and Noble Color Nook. Yeah, Apple want into that market REAL bad. 😯